Jeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉
Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023

I was thinking of this when revisiting a particular blog post: https://blog.codinghorror.com/doing-terrible-things-to-your-code/

or as Steve Yegge once said, "shit's easy syndrome."

Doing Terrible Things To Your Code

In 1992, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. In my defense, I had just graduated from college, this was pre-Internet, and I lived in Boulder, Colorado working in small business jobs where I was lucky to even hear about other programmers much less meet them. I

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Show threadKiwicmc
@codinghorror the first professional programmer I met ( as part of a joint industry final year university project) taught me that taking amphetamines to code through the night and marijuana to take the edge off would meet a project deadline but at the end produce shitty code…
Aug 30, 2023 at 3:00amWeb
Show threadKiwicmcAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror QA people however have been uniformly awesome. From the QA director who faced down the VP of engineering to prevent a bad release, to Sinead who psyched up all the programmers to test throughly so “they wouldn’t let her down”.. I always tell my staff, love your QA because they’ll stop you looking like an idiot at some point